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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Catalogue of the Mathematical Works of the Learned Mr. Thomas Baker, c1683
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [11]
Scope and Contents
7 page printed catalogue of the mathematical works of Thomas Baker. According to David Gregory's own index this was "Printed by Mr Collins". John Collins was a well known register of scientific accomplishments and zealous correspondent with Gregory and his uncle James Gregory (the source of David's core maths collection). This catalogue was printed, with a proposal for producing all of Baker's works in full, under the aegis of the Royal Society, whose council approved the measure and agreed...
Dates:
c1683
Schedula de notandis in nostra optica edenda, c1695
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [26]
Scope and Contents
List of corrigenda for an unspecified work, almost certainly Catoptricae et Dioptricae Elementa, (1695), or the Edinburgh optics lectures from which this work proceeded.
Dates:
c1695
Some notes about books in the publick Library of Oxon.; Queen M.['s] death; Dr Wallis's eyes; Dr Busby's Algebra, 19 October 1693 - 27 April 1695
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [20]
Scope and Contents
Note of some Arabic versions of Apollonius' "Sectio Ratione" in the Bodleian Library, that possess Latin glosses by Edward Bernard, Gregory's predecessor in the Savilian Chair of Astronomy, and one other person. Bernard had wished to publish the works of the ancient mathematicians; this manuscript he found defective and abandoned, unable to translate completely. [His partial translation was copied out by Gregory as B37, and used by Sir Edmund Halley to learn enough Arabic to translate the...
Dates:
19 October 1693 - 27 April 1695